Intel has canned its ‘Core+’ processor plus Optane drive bundles

guest · Jan 16, 2019

Just nine months after they were introduced
Intel has canned its ‘Core+’ processor plus Optane drive bundles
January 16, 2019
https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-has-canned-its-core-processor-plus-optane-drive-bundles

These Core+ offerings consisted of an 8th-generation Intel Core processor bundled with a 16GB Optane cache drive, and they came in three different flavors: Core+ i5-8400, Core+ i5-8500 and Core+ i7-8700.

As Tom’s Hardware reports (via PC World), the bundles have been marked as discontinued by Intel, the reason being a “lack of market demand”.

An Intel spokesman told PC World: “We have a number of manufacturing options available to us and have been shipping a broad portfolio of Intel Optane technology products for more than a year. We’ll continue to expand our product line and lead the industry with this exciting, new technology.”
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https://www.techspot.com/news/78294-intel-discontinuing-core-cpuoptane-desktop-bundles.html
In addition to there being little to no savings compared to buying a CPU and Optane Memory separately, NAND prices are continuing to fall, meaning the cost of SSDs has been going down over the last couple of years.
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